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Date: | 10 1959 |
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Description: | Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright, monitoring the construction and testing of load-bearing pylons for the Johnson Wax Building. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled. |
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Description: | Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
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Description: | Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin... |
Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
Date: | 03 14 1957 |
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Description: | Elevated view across street towards the storefront and delivery vehicles of Spic and Span Dry Cleaning. |
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Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life... |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
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Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
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Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
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